#I sacrificed it to the writing gods

[rookthorne]

Omg! Merry Buckmas to you! Merry Buckmas to us!!! This is just amazing! Everything looks incredible I don't know where to begin! Thank you so much for doing this ☃️❄️🎁🎄

nonnie, I swear to fuck, I’m gonna reach through this screen and smother you in a hug. I really am. I hope you’re prepared to have a fiery red-headed ball of Aussie fury coming at you.

this was… this was the best thing I could have ever gotten in my inbox 😭

I worked so fucking hard for this. I really did, well above any other events this year, and to read this? I can’t express how much it means to me.

you are a treasure and imma hoard you. you’re one of my favourite chaos kittens, whoever you may be — thank you, thank you so fucking much 🥹

I am now off to catch some much needed sleep with the biggest smile on my face thanks to you. I just wanted you to know. 🥹

[ruanbaijie]

我马上带你们回家，带你们回家……

SNOWFALL 冰雪谣 (2024) 1.13

[aphel1on]

neuvillette's lore is actually insane. we all took one look at him and went "haha dragon🫵" but i significantly underestimated how big of a role he would play. he's the incarnation of the original hydro sovereign. he took back his rule right under the heavenly principles' nose. he's the one handing out hydro visions now (not even because he has to, he doesn't, he just grew so fond of humanity that he chooses to). he gave away the hydro gnosis bc he straight up doesn't need it. he's planning to DETHRONE ALL OF THE ARCHONS (in a few hundred years, when the traveler's not around to see it, so it won't be awkward for them). he's kind and soft-spoken. he's full of vengeful rage. he's a father to hundreds. he found his purpose after feeling lost for 500 years. skirk pulled him aside for a super-secret convo and when he saw us again he immediately spilled the tea. as far as i can tell, he spawned into existence fully formed. no other character can fucking compare

[tsscat]

On a higher level I agree with this but I fundamentally disagree with this being applied to Arcane (what this post was inspired by) because the animation of Arcane is so handmade and detail heavy that you fundamentally cannot have 15-20 episodes. Like it cannot happen because it takes a long time and a lot of skilled people to make animation like that and it’s near impossible to get the time or money to do that length.

A lot have people talked about how the finale was cut down from its original hour and a half long script but less have talked about why — its because (from what I remember) it was too long to animate. The budget for arcane was 250 million dollars. That’s actually pretty efficient for big budget animation when you look at cost per minute, as some people have pointed out. But that’s still overall larger than most big budget animated films (both spiderverses were 100 million, largest Pixar films are around 200 million). 15-20 episodes per season for Arcane would have likely been something like 400-500 million dollars. That’s obscene amounts of money for any project. The highest budget film ever made from what I can tell (Star Wars The Force Awakens) was 447 million. 20 episodes would be like 555 million!

There’s some oversimplification here that I’m doing because obviously 18 episodes is still a lot more than one movie and it’s actually really impressive what they’ve been able to accomplish with the money they have. BUT this still doesn’t even factor in the time and labor took to make this, and the even more time and labor it would take to make a 15-20 ep arcane.

From what I can tell, writers knew how many episodes there were per season going in (though there’s maybe a rumor that they thought for a second that there were 5 seasons? Idk). I think it is more productive to critique writers on what they chose to write for and how they wrote season 2 given this 9 ep limit. You need to scope properly for any project, and I think fundamentally writers either did not scope properly or did not write for the scope they set.

[jonathanbyersphd]

Anyways, if they kill Nancy I will consider that a GoT level of bad ending

[justaz]

growing up and radicalizing urself then going back to watch ur old favorite pieces of media and realizing you were siding with the true villains the whole time is wild

[br1ghtestlight]

crying everytime i watch this clip im so serious. whyyy </3

[hechose]

i'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free. // @unheald ( daniel ) //

brows comes together-- intensity in those vibrant eyes and a kind of hurt that runs through armand. is that all daniel saw this as? some great, wasted time? as if... as if it were all for nothing? all those years, a pointless endeavour? as if they hadn't been some of the best, some of the most alive he'd ever felt?

maybe it was true. maybe, after all, armand had truly only been the drug of choice of the addict. maybe... it was never truly love, but a means to get what daniel craved above all else.

jaw trembles with the weight of it all, and armand curses the tears that slip from his eyes as he looks at daniel. looks at him and knows... this was it. this would be the final time...

"for free, was it? what, as if this were some mediocre, cheap love affair?" he laughs-- laughs a bitter and terrible sound. advances on daniel as he does with that look-- what was it louis had called it? half blank, half apocalyptic. he never once imagined looking at daniel like this. "as if there were never a cost for me, for you either. as if--"

cuts himself off, heart hammering inside his chest like some great, ugly, wild beast. teeth are grit and armand... knows. he knows what has to come next. knows that... there would be no way for daniel to find a life after this if he did not...

"do come closer, love. let me erase the mistake."

[lavendernlilac]

I think I’ve just written one of my all time favorite bodyguard au scenes

[diskusaurus]

My biggest issue in Epic the Musical is Odysseus, actually. In this essay, I will....

[notyetaghost]

I'm being punished by the gods

So i must be a heretic

Oh I'm their favourite plaything

Their wonderful dartboard

A stress ball to squeeze the life from

I exist as a sacrificial lamb

Worthless unless I'm punished

For the misdeeds of others

I have been searching so long

Trying to avoid the fire

I’m so tired of looking for a messiah

Finding a saviour to free me from the sky

I'm tired of threats of burning in eternal fire

I just want someone the cleanse me

 

I want someone to cleanse me 

To free me, to hold me

Someone to treat me unlike a plaything for holy

[stories-by-rie]

how to feel excited about my own projects again

[couriernewvegas]

dao ultimate sacrifice yayyyy dao morrigan dark ritual yayyyy we need dragon age to get back to interesting ending choices btw .

[encrucijada]

sibling and i just Actually finished totk and the urge to write a longfic has never been stronger

[mankillercalledbunny]

Legion's death scene makes me sob like a fucking baby every time

The singular first person pronoun? Calling her just "Tali" and not "Creator Tali'Zorah"? The light colours flickering? "KEELAH SE'LAI"????

I just barely manage to get it together and then we get the double whammy of "it will be honoured" and Tali calling Legion a friend and mourning it? I AM FUCKING OBLITERATED

[spicyicymeloncat]

Yknow something that gets me abt certain fanon depictions of kai is that he’s portrayed with no sense of self preservation, as if he’s self sacrificing and burned out, and I think I dislike it bc it feels like the opposite of his character most of the time.

Yeah some of the actions he takes are harmful to himself in some way, but it’s never intended to, they were ways of coping and making himself feel better.

Like the green ninja plot, he is insecure in his place, so he strives for the highest title to make him feel better.

The red shogun isn’t him beating himself up and not caring about his own well being. He was winning fights, fully engaging in the job, taking his frustration out on others and drinking away his issues, and yeah there’s self loathing in that, but there’s also him trying to make himself feel better, to redirect hurt away from himself.

Him prematurely concluding his parents were the bad guys in s7, is (imo) his way of rationalising his mixed feelings, in order to keep himself okay.

He’s not a reckless war machine who throws himself into battle with no hesitation, he tries to keep himself safe.

Kai is self-prioritised and yknow I think people in general really demonise that kinda of trait both in fiction and irl and that’s actually kind of harmful. The self sacrificial trait is so grossly over romanticised and idk it’s a breathe of fresh air when you see a character who doesn’t start out that way or end that way. Like nothing wrong with that trait being written, it’s just like sometimes it feels like people are only allowed to prioritise themselves if they previously have no sense of self care, bc then it’s seen as a healthy improvement. But in any other case, it means you’re selfish and that’s a bad thing apparently.

Like no. Being selfish and loving yourself and thinking you are hot shit and the smartest person alive and prioritising things that make you happy. None of that makes you evil or morally wrong. If in attempts to meet your needs you try to hurt someone else, or end up hurting yourself, then the action you took was bad but the intent isn’t! Fuck the media that finds people loving themselves as immorally wrong! Fuck it! It is not sexy to hate yourself actually.

I want more fanon Kais indulge in activities that make him happy, Kais that make bad decisions in trying to protect himself and Kais that have good coping mechanisms because he’s still trying to protect himself he’s just found better ways of doing it.

Bc it’s canon and it feels like it gets erased a bit because people somehow don’t find self love appealing unless the character was self hating first.